A bare-chested Mi-ju (Park Ji-hyun) is on top of a naked Sung-jin (Song Seung-heon) in bed. Despite her words, Mi-ju's actions suggest that she feels no guilt that Sung-jin is a married man who just married her best friend and sister, Soo-yeon (Jo Yeo-jung). Sung-jin is in a trance, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his wife, Soo-yeon, has been missing for some time. The two lie naked in bed together and actively indulge each other.
Director Kim Dae-woo's “Hidden Face,” which was released on the 20th, is a “19-gold movie” that shows Park Ji-hyun and Song Seung-heon having two affairs. As few Korean films in recent years have been rated PG-13, it's clear that this movie has the potential to generate a lot of public interest.
However, if you've already seen the movie, you know that Jeong Sa-shin's rating is just the tip of the iceberg in the movie's complex desires. This is because, after a lurid sequence at the beginning of the movie that sweeps you off your feet, the real story begins, one that will leave you saying, “Oh? From the moment the words “3 months ago” appear on the screen.
In fact, Sung-jin's wife, Soo-yeon, didn't disappear, but voluntarily. Mi-joo helped her best friend Soo-yeon vaporize and then approached her husband, Sung-jin. Sung-jin is completely unaware of the collusion between the two women. It is at this moment that the audience realizes that the film is more than just a drama about an affair, but about 'dangerous desire'.
When the unexpected 'hidden space' is revealed in earnest, the scope of imagination is further expanded. Behind the iron door in the wall of Sung-jin and Soo-yeon's newlywed house, there is a strong secret room that has been hidden for a long time. This voyeuristic and grotesque space, designed to observe all the intimate details of the room, is an excellent vehicle to propel the story forward to the more unconventional 'revenge'.
Originally, Su-yeon, the wife, was supposed to “fake disappear” into the room for a while to wear down her less devoted husband. She even takes a maniacal pleasure in secretly watching her husband's distressed face as he ponders the traces of her departure, leaving only a video letter behind.
But things never go as planned. Soo-yeon is unwittingly trapped there, and somehow Mi-joo knows she's trapped, but pretends not to, and has a passionate affair with Sung-jin. As Soo-yeon's anger and screams fill the room, Sung-jin's anxiety grows as his wife's disappearance prolongs after their affair, and Mi-ju's position as she walks a tightrope between the two, the audience becomes deeply immersed in their respective positions and emotions as they are constructed into a single context through small and large situations.
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